List of most translated individual authors
This page provides list of most translated individual authors to date sorted by the total number of translations.
As of August 2017
| Rank | Author | Nationality | Original language | Target languages | Total no. of translations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agatha Christie | English | 103 | 7,236 | |
| 2 | Jules Verne | French | — | 4,751 | |
| 3 | William Shakespeare | English | — | 4,296 | |
| 4 | Enid Blyton | English | 90 | 3,924 | |
| 5 | Barbara Cartland | English | 38 | 3,652 | |
| 6 | Danielle Steel | English | 43 | 3,628 | |
| 7 | Vladimir Lenin | Russian | — | 3,383 | |
| 8 | Hans Christian Andersen | Danish | — | 3,520 | |
| 9 | Stephen King | English | — | 3,357 | |
| 10 | Philipp Winterberg | German | 160 | 3,329 | |
| 11 | Jacob Grimm | German | — | 2,977 | |
| 12 | Wilhelm Grimm | German | — | 2,951 | |
| 13 | Nora Roberts | English | — | 2,597 | |
| 14 | Alexandre Dumas | French | 100 | 2,540 | |
| 15 | Arthur Conan Doyle | English | — | 2,496 | |
| 16 | Mark Twain | English | — | 2,431 | |
| 17 | Fyodor Dostoyevsky | Russian | 170 | 2,342 | |
| 18 | Georges Simenon | French | — | 2,315 | |
| 19 | Astrid Lindgren | Swedish | 60–95 | 2,271 | |
| 20 | Pope John Paul II | — | — | 2,258 | |
| 21 | René Goscinny | French | — | 2,234 | |
| 22 | R. L. Stine | English | — | 2,222 | |
| 23 | Jack London | English | — | 2,182 | |
| 24 | Leo Tolstoy | Russian | — | 2,178 | |
| 25 | Isaac Asimov | English | — | 2,159 | |
| 26 | Charles Dickens | English | — | 2,112 |